Improvement in compositions for safety blazing fusees



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE (illUllil (,Alili .ll'lill'h SCHNEIDER,ill." ERIE, .lENXSYLVANlA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOSITIONS FOR SAFETVBLAZING FUSEES, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,181, dated July 21,1874; application filed April ii,- 1574.

To all 207mm it may concern:

lie it known that I, GEORG G. J. Sunscr- DER, of the city and county ofErie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new ()omposition forSafety Blazing Fusees, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description:

The nature of my invention consists in using for the ignition of fuseesa compound composed of the ingredients hereinafter named, which rendersthe fusee, when lighted, inextinguishable in wind or rain, and will notpoison any one should the composition cidont or through careh'essness beeaten.

The construction of my compound is as follows: i take two (2) parts ofglue, ten (10) parts of starch, and se\ 'enty-two ('72) parts of waterand mix them when warmed. To this mixture I add twenty (20)parts ofpowdered glass, forty-eight (48) parts of chlorate of'potash, twenty(20) parts of pumice-stone, eight (8) parts of sulpliuret of goldenantimony, twelve (12) parts of saltpeter, four (4) parts ofcascarilla-bark, and two (2) parts of lampblack. in this mixture the endof the splint or stick of the fusee is dipped but once, and after beingproperly dried is ready for,- use, as no other striking preparation isnecessary to be added to the point of the fusee to enable it to beignited.

The fusee thus prepared can only be ignited by friction upon by acasurface which is prepared I for use by employing a chemical compoundcomposed of the following ingredients, viz: Starch, amorphousphosphorus, sulphuret of black antimony, and water.

As this composition is the subject-matter of another application for apatent, the proportion or. the ingredients composing the same are notgiven here.

I desire it understood that there is nothing arbitrary about the clientsherein nanied, as they maybe varied without in any manner affecting myinvention. I

I am awar that safety-matches have been 1nade-that is, matches which canbe ignited only by a object of my invention is to produce a sai'ctyfuscewhich cannot be easily extinguished.

I do not limit myself to the exact materials named; as aehemist canequivalent substances.

W'hatl claim as new, by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A compound composed of the ingredients herein named, for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORG {EARL J U LUIS SCHNEIDER.

\Vi tnesses:

.i'. W. Wn'rnonn,

,W. it. DAVENPORT.

readily suggest and desire to, secure proportions of theingrespeciallyprepared surface. The.

